Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

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United Nations

Report on the second session (12-23 May 2003)

Economic and Social Council Official Records, 2003 Supplement No. 23

Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

Report on the second session (12-23 May 2003)

United Nations • New York, 2003 E/2003/43 E/C.19/2003/22

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Contents Chapter Page

I. Matters calling for action by the Economic and Social Council or brought to its attention ... 1

A. Draft decisions recommended by the Forum for adoption by the Council ...... 1

I. Workshop on the collection of data concerning indigenous peoples ...... 1 II. High-level segment of the substantive session of 2006 of the Economic and Social Council ...... 1 III. Participation of members of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in meetings of subsidiary bodies of the Economic and Social Council ...... 1

IV. Bureau of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues ...... 2 V. Venue and dates for the third session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues 2 VI. Provisional agenda and documentation for the third session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues ...... 2

VII. Proposal for a second international decade of the world’s indigenous peoples .... 3

B. Matters brought to the attention of the Council ...... 3

1. Indigenous children and youth ...... 3

2. Economic and social development ...... 6

3. Environment ...... 10

4. Health ...... 13

5. Human rights ...... 16

6. Culture ...... 17

7. Education ...... 18

8. Methods of work of the Forum with the United Nations system ...... 20

9. Future of the work of the Forum ...... 21

II. Introduction ...... 23

III. Theme of the session: “Indigenous children and youth” ...... 24

IV. Methods of work of the Forum with the United Nations system ...... 25

V. Mandated areas ...... 26

VI. Future work of the Forum ...... 33

VII. Provisional agenda for the third session of the Forum ...... 34

VIII. Adoption of the report of the Forum on its second session ...... 35

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IX. Organization of the session ...... 36 Annexes

I. Attendance ...... 38

II. Documentation ...... 42

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Chapter I Matters calling for action by the Economic and Social Council or brought to its attention

A. Draft decisions recommended by the Forum for adoption by the Council

1. The Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues recommends to the Economic and Social Council the adoption of the following draft decisions:

Draft decision I Workshop on the collection of data concerning indigenous peoples

The Economic and Social Council: (a) Authorizes the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat to convene, as an initial step, a three-day workshop on the collection of data concerning indigenous peoples, with the participation of three members of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues; experts from United Nations agencies, funds and programmes, including both statistics experts and focal points on indigenous issues; the secretariat of the Forum; experts from indigenous peoples organizations with expertise related to the collection of data concerning indigenous peoples; two academic experts in the field; and interested States; (b) Authorizes the provision of all necessary conference facilities for the workshop; (c) Decides that the workshop will produce a report containing recommendations for consideration by the Forum at its third session, in 2004.

Draft decision II High-level segment of the substantive session of 2006 of the Economic and Social Council

The Economic and Social Council, taking into account that in 2006 five years will have been completed since the first session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues and given the increasing importance of indigenous issues at the international level, decides to devote the high-level segment of its substantive session of 2006 to indigenous issues and to invite the Chairperson of the Forum to participate.

Draft decision III Participation of members of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in meetings of subsidiary bodies of the Economic and Social Council

The Economic and Social Council, taking into account the importance for the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues to be represented, by its Chairperson or designated members, at various meetings of relevance to its mandate throughout the year, decides to confirm such representation as one of the methods of work of the Forum, and further requests that all subsidiary bodies of the Council welcome the Forum and its members by issuing open invitations to Forum members to attend all relevant meetings, conferences and seminars.

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Draft decision IV Bureau of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

The Economic and Social Council, having taken note that the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues considered it useful to designate six members for its Bureau at its first and second sessions, confirms that emerging practice as a method of work of the Forum.

Draft decision V Venue and dates for the third session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

The Economic and Social Council decides that the third session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues will be held at United Nations Headquarters in New York from 10 to 21 May 2004.

Draft decision VI Provisional agenda and documentation for the third session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

The Economic and Social Council approves the provisional agenda and documentation for the third session set out below. 1. Election of officers. 2. Adoption of the agenda and organization of work. 3. Substantive theme: “Indigenous women”. Documentation Note by the Secretariat 4. Mandated areas: (a) Economic and social development; (b) Environment; (c) Health; (d) Human rights; (e) Culture; (f) Education. Documentation Note by the Secretariat 5. Future work of the Forum. 6. Draft agenda for the fourth session of the Forum. 7. Adoption of the report of the Forum on its third session.

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Draft decision VII Proposal for a second international decade of the world’s indigenous peoples

The Economic and Social Council recommends to the General Assembly that it declare a second international decade of the world’s indigenous peoples after the conclusion of the current International Decade of the World’s Indigenous Peoples in 2004.

B. Matters brought to the attention of the Council

2. The Forum has identified the proposals, objectives, recommendations and areas of possible future action set out below and, through the Council, recommends that States, United Nations system and intergovernmental organizations, indigenous peoples, the private sector and non-governmental organizations assist in their realization. 3. It is the understanding of the Secretariat that the proposals, objectives, recommendations and areas of possible future action to be carried out by the United Nations as set out below will be implemented to the extent that resources from the regular budget and extrabudgetary resources are available.

1. Indigenous children and youth

4. As stated in its report on its first session,1 the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues decided to make indigenous children and youth a focal point of its work in the years to come. The Forum reconfirms its commitment to do so, and acknowledges the efforts made by organizations representing indigenous peoples, United Nations agencies and States in the past year to tackle the urgent needs of the young generation, including the decision of the Committee on the Rights of the Child to declare indigenous children as the subject for its theme day, to be held in September 2003. 5. Recognizing the progress made, and building on the recommendations made in its report on its first session, the Forum provides the following advice and recommendations: (a) Encourages United Nations bodies whose activities have an impact on indigenous children and youth, including, but not limited to, the World Health Organization (WHO), the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the International Labour Organization (ILO), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), and the Department of Public Information of the United Nations Secretariat, to report regularly to the Forum. The reports should contain detailed information on and assess the progress made within programmes directed at, affecting and relating to indigenous adolescents.

______1 See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2002, Supplement No. 23 (E/2002/43/Rev.1), chap. I, sect. B, para. 31.

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(b) Reiterates its recommendation that the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), as the United Nations nodal agency on children: • Present a comprehensive report to the Forum on an annual basis, including budgetary allocations and an assessment of their impact, including details of all its initiatives undertaken in collaboration with other specialized bodies of the United Nations system relating to indigenous children and those undertaken at the international or regional levels, as well as country initiatives, where applicable; • Provide information from the multi-indicator cluster survey being globally undertaken by UNICEF, disaggregating data on the antenatal health, birth, registration, immunization and early childhood development of indigenous children. 6. The Forum welcomes the participation of the Chairperson of the Committee on the Rights of the Child in the high-level panel and dialogue on indigenous children and youth held during its second session, and expresses the hope that that will lead to enhanced monitoring and promotion of the rights of indigenous children at the national and international levels. The Forum recommends that the Chairman of the Committee inform the next meeting of the Chairpersons of the human rights treaty bodies of the results of the high-level panel and dialogue. The Forum recommends that the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights transmit the results of the discussion of the Committee to the Forum at its third session. 7. The Forum recommends that the Inter-Agency Support Group discuss how to promote the cross-cutting issue of children and youth. 8. The Forum notes that in order for it and the United Nations system to review the situation of indigenous children and youth, there is a need for country-specific situation analyses. Given UNICEF’s unique and long experience and expertise in that area, the Forum invites UNICEF to initiate such situation analyses on indigenous children by field offices in countries with indigenous communities. The Forum also invites UNICEF to transmit such situation analyses to the Forum. 9. The Forum is deeply concerned that particular problems and discrimination are faced by indigenous children and youth, including in the areas of education, health, culture, extreme poverty, mortality, incarceration, labour and other relevant areas. The Forum notes the need for new indicators to be developed by the United Nations that will specifically target those problems, and in that regard invites UNICEF to develop such new indicators and share them with other entities of the United Nations system, especially UNESCO. 10. The Forum welcomes the new initiatives undertaken by UNICEF with regard to indigenous children, in particular the ongoing development of a digest on the indigenous child, as well as a number of case studies aimed at understanding development programming to fulfil the rights of indigenous children. The Forum requests UNICEF to make the digest and the results of those studies available to the Forum at its third session. 11. The Forum recommends that UNICEF, in cooperation with the ILO, UNESCO and UNHCR, report to the Forum at its fourth session on ways that the United Nations system can assist in capacity-building in that area.

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12. The Forum welcomes the inclusion in the 2003 Ibero-American Summit of a focus on indigenous children, and recommends that UNICEF report to the Forum on the results of the Summit in that area, and to indicate how lessons can be learned and policy approaches improved concerning indigenous children in other parts of the world with indigenous peoples, specifically Asia and Africa. 13. The Forum urges UNICEF to develop its policy on and guidelines regarding indigenous peoples in time for the third session of the Forum. 14. The Forum recommends that UNICEF consider the appointment of a goodwill ambassador of indigenous children and youth to raise public awareness and that it urge all UNICEF ambassadors to pay attention to the specific problems of indigenous children and youth. 15. Aware of the massive exodus of indigenous youth to the alien environments of cities around the world and the discrimination, socio-economic hardships, weakened family networks and drug abuse, inter alia, affecting those youngsters and “street children”, the Forum requests the World Bank, the ILO and UNICEF to conduct an in-depth comparative study of legal frameworks and social programmes addressing indigenous urban youth in selected countries. The study should assess key problems and best practices and should provide recommendations for the formulation of policies and strategies for future action. 16. The Forum recommends that the United Nations system, in particular UNICEF and WHO, in collaboration with Governments and in consultation with indigenous peoples’ organizations, and with the participation and input from the Committee on the Rights of the Child and the Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, address issues related to the trafficking and sexual exploitation of indigenous girls, and urges States to create programmes of rehabilitation. 17. The Forum invites the Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, within the purview of his mandate, to pay special attention to and make recommendations concerning the rights of indigenous children. 18. In order to promote further knowledge of the Forum and the role of the United Nations among indigenous children and youth, the Forum decides to organize an indigenous youth art competition for the design of a logo for the Forum and to present the results to the Forum at its fourth session, in 2005, with the highest participation of indigenous children, including illiterate children. 19. The Forum, taking into account the large number of incarcerated indigenous children and youth and the need to assist them in reintegrating into society as soon as possible through socio-educational measures, recommends that the Economic and Social Council urge Governments to ensure greater protection and humane treatment of those children and youth while in prison and youth detention centres, and to provide them with socio-educational measures for their rehabilitation. 20. The Forum, taking into account that indigenous children, youth and women are more vulnerable and are often physically and psychologically mistreated, and that children represent the future of indigenous peoples, recommends that the Council support the declaration of an international day or an international year of the

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indigenous child, to be celebrated with awareness-raising activities to honour the cultural identity of indigenous peoples. 21. The Forum recommends that UNICEF, UNESCO, WHO, the ILO, UNIFEM, UNDP, UNFPA and other United Nations bodies, in collaboration with Governments and in close coordination with indigenous peoples, prepare a Latin American conference of indigenous children and youth in 2004, taking into account the experience of the Subregional Conference of Indigenous Youth and Children, held in Quito in 2001. 22. The Forum recommends that both States and indigenous peoples’ organizations consider the inclusion of youth representatives in their delegations attending the annual session of the Forum. 23. The Forum recommends that in staffing the secretariat of the Forum, due consideration be given to qualified indigenous youth applicants. 24. The Forum recommends that the Committee on the Rights of the Child, at its special discussion day on the indigenous child, to be held on 19 September 2003, in addition to considering reports from States parties, pay special attention to issues related to safeguarding the integrity of indigenous families. 25. The Forum, deeply concerned about the harmful and widespread impact of armed conflict on indigenous children, recommends that the Committee on the Rights of the Child make recommendations on the situation of the human rights of indigenous children involved in armed conflict, taking into account the principles and norms contained in the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict.

2. Economic and social development

26. The Forum recommends that the agencies and bodies of the United Nations, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the African Development Bank and the International Monetary Fund rethink the concept of development, with the full participation of indigenous peoples in development processes, taking into account the rights of indigenous peoples and the practices of their traditional knowledge. 27. The Forum welcomes UNDP’s contribution to the Forum and its support of the establishment of a working group on free, prior and informed consent and of the initiative to develop a land rights policy. The Forum also recognizes the key role UNDP can play in data collection and disaggregation through its national human development reports and the Millennium Development Goals reports. The Forum also recognizes that the Goals can provide an overall framework for furthering indigenous peoples’ development. 28. The Forum expresses concern over development practices that do not take into account the particular characteristics of indigenous communities as groups, with their distinct cultural identities and often their own systems of representation, thus significantly undermining meaningful ways of participation in the assessment, preparation, execution and evaluation of development programmes of their concern. 29. The Forum, taking into account that States recognized the vital role of indigenous peoples in sustainable development at the World Summit on Sustainable Development, held in Johannesburg, South Africa, calls upon the United Nations

E/2003/43 E/C.19/2003/22 system, other intergovernmental organizations and Governments to establish processes of meaningful participation and partnership with indigenous communities in those processes, including within the context of the United Nations Development Assistance Framework and the poverty reduction strategy papers of the World Bank. The Forum recommends, through the Economic and Social Council, that all States, organs and agencies of the United Nations take into account the Kimberley Declaration adopted by the Summit of Indigenous Peoples on Sustainable Development, held in the territory of the Khoi-San People from 20 to 23 August 2002, as well as the plan of implementation of indigenous peoples on sustainable development, when States begin to implement the Plan of Implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development. The Permanent Forum, through the Economic and Social Council, invites United Nations agencies, bodies, funds and programmes to identify areas of work within their mandates for collaborative implementation with indigenous peoples’ Kimberly proposals, taking into account the report of the Commission on Sustainable Development on its eleventh session and the multi-year programme of work of the Commission, for the further implementation of Agenda 21 and the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation as well as the fulfilment of the Millennium Development Goals. 30. The Forum takes note of the adoption by the Commission on Sustainable Development of a substantive agenda for the next several years, and decides to prepare inputs to the Commission according to the calendar adopted by the Commission. In preparation for the first cluster for 2004-2005 on water, sanitation and human settlements, the Forum recommends that its secretariat prepare, without financial implications, a brief draft position paper and to submit it to the Forum at its third session. 31. Noting that the Economic and Social Council, at its substantive session of 2003, will devote its high-level segment to rural development, the Forum recommends that the Council, in formulating its conclusions, take into account the unique cultural identities of indigenous peoples and the necessity for their meaningful participation in the planning, implementation and evaluation of programmes dealing with rural development. 32. The Forum notes that indigenous peoples are increasingly confronted with issues and problems related to more urban characteristics, such as access to adequate housing, services and infrastructure in human settlements. It therefore invites Governments and local authorities to adopt policies and take necessary measures to meet the changing needs of indigenous peoples within the global process of the urban/rural dynamics and continuum. The Forum also recommends that United Nations agencies, funds and programmes increase their focus on this global trend and take actions in their respective areas of work so as to positively affect indigenous peoples. It recommends that the United Nations system, especially the United Nations Human Settlements Programme, submit a report on policies and programmes in this area to the Forum, and to participate in a dialogue with the Forum at its third session.

International financial institutions

33. The Forum, taking into account the meetings between the World Bank and indigenous peoples held during its second session on the guidelines and operative policies and procedural norms of the Bank, recommends that the Bank:

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(a) Continue to address issues currently outstanding, including Bank implementation of international customary laws and standards, in particular human rights instruments, full recognition of customary land and resource rights of indigenous peoples, recognition of the right of free, prior informed consent of indigenous peoples regarding development projects that affect them, and prohibition of the involuntary resettlement of indigenous peoples; (b) Compile examples of best practices in development projects with indigenous peoples and include those best practices in future policies; (c) Discuss the issues of forced relocation and land rights; (d) Facilitate and support the exchange of knowledge and information between indigenous organizations; (e) Facilitate and support the exchange of information on the implementation of policies on indigenous peoples by international financial institutions, such as the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the African Development Bank and the International Monetary Fund. 34. The Forum welcomes the new initiative of the Bank entitled “Grants facility for indigenous peoples”, and urges the Bank to organize consultations with indigenous peoples’ organizations to further the process. 35. The Forum recommends that the International Labour Organization inform the Forum at its third session of the impact of the major ILO technical cooperation programmes, in particular the International Programme for the Elimination of Child Labour, and programmes under the Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights. 36. The Forum renews the recommendation made at its first session on the need to create a three-year working group on free, prior informed consent and participatory research guidelines, under the aegis of the Forum, with funding from the regular budget that includes a focus on how the guidelines relate to the protection of indigenous knowledge and natural resources. 37. The Forum recommends that a meeting of international financial institutions be convened, with the participation of the Forum, to consider issues related to their policies, procedures and relationships concerning indigenous peoples, and that a report of the meeting be prepared for consideration at the third session of the Forum. 38. The Forum recommends that the United Nations system, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank and the International Monetary Fund formulate development policies for indigenous peoples that affirm their identity and include the participation of indigenous citizens so as to highlight and initiate programmes and projects based on the perspective of the indigenous way of life. 39. Considering the effects of globalization and the need for indigenous peoples to participate in the global economy to promote their development, the Forum recommends that the Economic and Social Council invite the World Trade Organization to participate in its third session. 40. The Forum recommends that a world conference on indigenous peoples in the information society be organized on the occasion of the World Summit on the Information Society (10-12 December 2003), in close cooperation with interested Governments and NGOs. It is recommended that the assistance of the secretariat of

E/2003/43 E/C.19/2003/22 the Summit be provided for the organization of such an event. The Forum recommends that a written report on indigenous peoples in the information society be addressed by the focal point of the Forum, Mr. Matias, to the preparatory committee for the Summit before 31 August 2003. 41. The Forum recommends inviting the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean and other regional commissions to present a report of their activities concerning the situation of indigenous peoples and poverty in Latin America. 42. The Forum recommends to States and the United Nations system the implementation of projects of agriculture, fishing, forestry, and arts and crafts production to diversify productive activities and family income sources and to contribute to reducing, according to their own will, the levels of internal and external migration of indigenous peoples, and to providing capacity-building in those areas, by: (a) Promoting the knowledge, application and dissemination of appropriate technologies and indigenous peoples’ local products with certificates of origin to activate product activities, as well as the use, management and conservation of natural resources; (b) Strengthening the capacities and potential of local human resources to train agricultural, fishery and forestry promoters that respond efficiently to the necessities of the families beneficiaries; (c) Strengthening the institutional and entrepreneurial capacity of organizations of indigenous peoples to design operative and effective strategies so as to achieve sustainable development for the indigenous peoples of the world. 43. The Forum recommends to Governments the design and implementation of mechanisms for resolving the problems related to land tenure and access to credits, with quality and efficiency and without affecting indigenous peoples. 44. The Forum recommends that States where indigenous peoples live formulate and implement public policies with gender and ethnic considerations, taking into account the multicultural and multi-ethnic composition of their populations. 45. The Forum reiterates its recommendation that the Economic and Social Council approve the creation, under the auspices of the Forum, of a three-year working group on free, prior informed consent and participatory research guidelines, with the participation of stakeholders concerned, namely Governments, indigenous peoples’ organizations, corporations and States and the United Nations system, with combined funding provided partly by the regular budget and partly through the Voluntary Fund, the World Bank and corporations, that includes a focus on how free, prior informed consent and participatory research guidelines relate to economic, social and environmental projects and the protection of indigenous knowledge and natural resources.

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3. Environment

Recommendation 1 Progress of work in the area of environmental development

46. The Forum recommends that the Secretary-General, through the Economic and Social Council, prepare a report on the implementation of chapter 26 of Agenda 21 and other relevant chapters, such as chapter 36 and 15, that focus on how the Commission on Sustainable Development, in conjunction with secretariats of other environmental bodies (Convention on Biological Diversity, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, United Nations Environment Programme, Global Environment Facility (GEF), United Nations Forum on Forests, UNDP, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) etc.) are implementing those chapters for indigenous peoples in their work, and that the report be submitted to the Forum at its third session.

Recommendation 2 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

47. The Forum recommends that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change consider the possible establishment of an ad hoc open-ended intersessional working group on indigenous peoples and local communities and climate change, whose objectives would be to study and propose timely, effective and adequate solutions to respond to the urgent situations caused by climate change that indigenous peoples and local communities face. The Forum furthermore recommends that the Convention consider providing necessary funding support to Forum members and indigenous peoples to guarantee their participation and to strengthen their participation.

Recommendation 3 World water

48. With regard to the environmental issue of water, the Forum, recognizing the indigenous peoples’ Kyoto water declaration made at the World Water Forum, held in Kyoto, Japan, in March 2003, requests that the Commission on Sustainable Development and other relevant United Nations bodies (i.e., UNEP, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNDP) consider the declaration in their discussions on this theme in 2004.

Recommendation 4 Waste, chemicals and pollution

49. The Forum recommends that the United Nations system urge all States to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, the Bio-Safety Protocol, the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (the Conference of Parties to the Stockholm Convention should establish mechanisms for indigenous peoples to maintain an active presence at its meeting), the Rotterdam Convention on Hazardous Chemicals, the Basel Convention on the Control of the Transboundary Movement of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal and its 1995 prohibition on the export of hazardous waste from the countries of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development to non-member countries, and 1996 Protocol to the London Convention on marine waste deposits etc.

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50. The Forum recommends that the United Nations Environment Programme report on the feasibility of developing mechanisms for indigenous peoples to participate in the persistent organic pollutants global monitoring programme’s evaluation process under the Stockholm Convention. The Forum also welcomes the key findings of the UNEP global mercury assessment, and recommends that the Economic and Social Council recommend that UNEP take immediate action on mercury contamination and work towards initiating a global legally binding instrument and other measures at the next UNEP Governing Council meeting of environmental ministers, to be held in the Republic of Korea in 2005.

Recommendation 5 Mining and mineral extraction

51. The Forum recommends that the United Nations system, particularly the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and UNEP, taking note of the World Bank’s extractive industries review, organize a workshop on resource extraction and indigenous peoples to further discuss such issues as corporate accountability and the rehabilitation of mined out areas, polluted water bodies and compensation of adversely affected communities, sustainable development and land rights, with a view to developing a mechanism to address the issues.

Recommendation 6 Forests, parks and protected areas

52. The operational policy of the World Bank regarding forests is under review. The Forum recommends to the Bank that it take into account the recommendations made by indigenous peoples and calls for the involvements of Forum members in the Bank’s process of review and revision. 53. The Forum notes the preparation of the World Congress on Protected Areas, to be held in Durban, South Africa, in September 2003, which Forum members consider to be an important meeting calling for their attention and action. The Forum recommends that all laws, policies or work programmes on forests and protected areas guarantee, ensure and respect various aspects of indigenous peoples’ lives, such as their spiritual and cultural lives, lands and territorial rights, including sacred sites, needs and benefits, and recognize their rights of access to and control over the management of forests.

Recommendation 7 World Trade Organization

54. The Forum invites the secretariat of the World Trade Organization (WTO) to its third session for an exchange of views on important issues of common interest.

Recommendation 8 Environmental impact assessment and cultural diversity

55. The Forum recommends that United Nations bodies, in particular the Convention on Biological Diversity, in coordination with the World Bank, UNDP, FAO and IFAD, and UNEP, organize a workshop on protecting sacred places and ceremonial sites of indigenous peoples with a view to identifying protective

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mechanisms and instituting a legal framework that make cultural, environmental and social impact assessments studies mandatory and ensure the environmental accountability of economic, social and environmental projects that are proposed to be conducted on sacred sites and on lands, territories and waters traditionally occupied or used by indigenous peoples. 56. Taking into account decision 22/16 of the Governing Council of UNEP, the Forum recommends that UNEP and relevant United Nations agencies and programmes hold consultations at the regional and national levels with indigenous peoples to examine this issue and prepare recommendations on possible further strengthening of the understanding of the link between environment and cultural diversity.

Recommendation 9 Convention on Biological Diversity

57. The Forum recommends the establishment of an international ethical code on bio-prospecting in order to avoid bio-piracy and ensure the respect for indigenous cultural and intellectual heritage. Under the framework of the Convention, a mechanism should be established for the repatriation and devolution of genetic materials collections to indigenous peoples. The Forum recommends to the Convention secretariat that the global taxonomy initiative incorporate an ethical principles and social framework for the protection of indigenous peoples’ rights to their lands, traditional knowledge and resources before its implementation.

Recommendation 10 World Intellectual Property Organization

58. The Forum, noting the future mandate of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore to be considered by the Committee at its session to be held in July 2003, expresses the wish that the mandate of the Committee should have as its clear objective the continued development of mechanisms, systems and tools that adequately protect the genetic resources, traditional knowledge and expressions of culture of indigenous peoples at the national, regional and international levels. The Forum affirms its willingness to contribute its expertise and experience to the work of the Committee and to play a consultative role in assisting mechanisms that may be established by member States of WIPO, and urges the Committee to assist two Forum members in participating systematically and effectively in the process by establishing a special fund. 59. The Forum recommends that WIPO undertake a study, in collaboration with Forum members, on the use of indigenous knowledge relating to medicinal plants and resources, the commercialization of such knowledge and how indigenous communities are benefiting from such commercialization.

Recommendation 11 Funding for indigenous peoples’ projects

60. The Forum recommends that all United Nations environmental bodies, in particular the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the International Fund for Agricultural Development, UNEP, GEF, the World Bank and the United Nations Development Programme, make the necessary efforts to mobilize resources for projects by indigenous peoples, and provide financial support to

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strengthen the international indigenous peoples Forum on biodiversity and the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.

Recommendation 12 Participation of indigenous peoples

61. The Forum recommends to the Economic and Social Council that the United Nations system guarantee the full and effective participation of indigenous peoples in appropriate processes and environmental conventions, such as those on desertification, wetlands and climate change.

Recommendation 13 High-level panel on the participation of civil society

62. Recognizing the emerging role of civil society and indigenous peoples in the search for creative solutions as a means of contributing to formulating, developing and implementing policies and programmes of the United Nations system, the Forum welcomes the initiative of the Secretary-General to create a high-level panel to prepare a series of recommendations on the participation of civil society in the work of the United Nations system. The Forum recommends that the Secretary- General ask the high-level panel to hold consultations and to take into account the recommendations of the Forum on the improvement of indigenous peoples’ participation in and contributions to the work of the United Nations system.

4. Health

63. The Forum reiterates the recommendations made in its report on its first session and: (a) Urges the World Health Organization (WHO), the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and all United Nations bodies and agencies involved in programmes relating to health to incorporate indigenous healers and cultural perspectives on health and illness into their policies, guidelines and programmes, and to undertake regional consultations with indigenous peoples on these issues, in order to mainstream indigenous health issues into the United Nations system; (b) Urges the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to undertake a study on the relationship between food security, subsistence agricultural practices and indigenous health and illness. 64. The Forum recommends that WHO, the United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations Children’s Fund, and the United Nations Population Fund convene a workshop on indigenous health, with the goal of addressing a system-wide strategy to address the health needs of indigenous peoples and setting out the terms of reference for a study on the health needs of indigenous peoples, with particular emphasis on indigenous children and women including infant mortality, reproductive rights, sterilization, domestic abuse and addiction and the collection of data relating to these issues. The Forum recommends that its focal point and a representative of the Indigenous Peoples’ Caucus on Health be invited to attend and be provided the means to participate. 65. The Forum urges the Global Alliance For Vaccination Initiatives (GAVI) to sponsor a workshop and also urges UNDP to co-sponsor a workshop to expand global programmes for immunization and vaccination of indigenous women and

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children and to assess the need for safety protocols relating thereto. The Permanent Forum recommends that its focal point in health and a representative of the Indigenous Peoples’ Caucus on Health be invited to attend and be provided the means to participate. 66. The Forum recommends that UNICEF prepare a report on indigenous children who have limited or no access to direct health-care services, including recommendations to improve health-care access.

New recommendations

General

67. The Forum urges UNICEF, the lead United Nations agency on children, to adopt a policy relating to indigenous children and to designate an agency focal point on indigenous children. The Permanent Forum urges UNICEF to include questions on ethnicity, cultural and tribal affiliation and language in its Demographic and Health and Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys, in order to obtain disaggregated data on the goals set forth at the World Summit for Children and the health needs of indigenous children. 68. The Forum urges WHO, in implementing the outlined global strategy on health of marginalized ethnic populations, to gather data and extend programme services to indigenous peoples based on criteria relating to ethnicity, cultural or tribal affiliation and language. 69. The Forum urges WHO to engage in a global consultation with indigenous peoples and others on its participatory research guidelines and seek the advice of the Permanent Forum on the guidelines. 70. The Forum urges UNICEF, UNDP, the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the Global Fund for AIDS to gather and disaggregate data on indigenous infants, children and mothers based on criterion relating to ethnicity, cultural and tribal affiliation and language.

Environment/health/persistent organic pollutants

71. The Forum recommends that the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme urge States to ratify the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants and adopt the recommendations of the Conference of the Parties relating to its implementation. 72. The Forum invites UNDP and the Statistical Branch of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs to present a report at the 2004 session of the Forum, setting forth the progress made to date on the Millennium Development Goals, with special focus on alleviating poverty and its affects on indigenous peoples and communities. 73. The Forum recommends that the Committee on the Rights of the Child, as the treaty monitoring body for the Convention on the Rights of the Child, review the compliance of States Parties with article 24, which recognized the basic right of all children to “the provision of adequate and nutritional foods and clean drinking water, taking into consideration the dangers and risks of environmental pollution”,

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with particular attention to its impact on traditional subsistence foods, and that the Committee address those issues during the day of general discussion on the indigenous child in September 2003. 74. The Forum recommends that the Special Rapporteur on toxic waste, with the participation of the Committee on the Rights on the Child, UNEP and WHO, conduct a workshop on the impacts of persistent organic pollutants and pesticides on indigenous peoples, including examining the promotion and use of pesticides by multinational corporations.

HIV/AIDS

75. The Forum recommends that the Global Fund and UNAIDS participate in the Inter-Agency Support Group and that the Fund and UNAIDS present a report on the impact of their programmes and activities on indigenous peoples and communities to the Permanent Forum at its 2004 session, with specific focus on preventative programmes and activities impacting children and infants. 76. The Forum recommends that the Global Fund review their funding strategy in order to include access by indigenous non-governmental organizations and health providers for community-based culturally appropriate HIV/AIDS programmes.

Other specific issues

77. The Forum recommends that the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences pay special attention to the impact of violence against indigenous women, including war-related violence and domestic violence. 78. The Forum recommends that the Special Rapporteur on the right to health pay special attention in his work to the right to health as contained in treaties between indigenous peoples and States. 79. The Forum recommends that the United Nations agencies supporting and promoting the Healthy Environments for Children Alliance, namely WHO, UNICEF, UNEP and the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (UN-HABITAT), include a particular focus on indigenous children and youth. 80. The Forum urges States to undertake and promote the expansion of their national health systems in order to provide holistic health programmes for indigenous children that incorporate preventive medical practices and family and community participation. States are urged to address the issues of malnutrition of indigenous children victimized by poverty by adopting special measures to ensure and protect the cultivation of traditional food crops. 81. The Forum recommends that the Working Group on Indigenous Populations undertake a study on genocidal and ethnocidal practices perpetrated on indigenous peoples, including programmes for sterilization of indigenous women and girls, the use of indigenous communities as subjects for nuclear testing or storage of radioactive waste and the testing of unapproved drugs on indigenous children and peoples. 82. The Forum recommends that WHO, in conjunction with indigenous health providers, undertake a study on the prevalence and causes of suicide among indigenous youth, and efforts being undertaken, including culturally based approaches, to address suicide prevention and the promotion of mental health and wellness.

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5. Human rights

83. The Forum recommends that, under the aegis of the Forum, effective cooperation should be established and further developed between the Forum, the Working Group on Indigenous Populations and the special rapporteurs who address issues relating to indigenous peoples, with a view towards evaluating their activities, ensuring complementary efforts and avoiding duplication, in the light of resolution 2003/55 of the Commission on Human Rights. 84. The Forum wishes to express its appreciation to the Special Rapporteur on the situation of the human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous peoples for his participation at the second session of the Forum and for his important contribution thereto. The Forum invites the Special Rapporteur to participate annually at its sessions and to inform the Forum on his work in accordance with his mandate. 85. The Forum appreciates the preparation by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights of the information note on the ways in which indigenous issues have been addressed in Charter-based mechanisms and treaty bodies. The Forum recommends that the Secretary-General prepare, in several stages, an analytical study on the subject. In the initial stage, the Forum recommends the Secretary-General prepare a study on the ways in which indigenous issues have been addressed in the consideration of reports of States parties submitted under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. 86. The Forum underlines the importance for country-specific special rapporteurs, thematic special rapporteurs, experts and representatives of the Commission on Human Rights to pay special attention to the situation of indigenous peoples in their respective fields. 87. The Forum reiterates the recommendations contained in paragraphs 18 and 19 of the report on its first session:2 (a) The Forum calls upon States to adopt the draft United Nations declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples before the end of the Decade; (b) The Forum encourages States to include representatives of indigenous peoples’ organizations in their delegations to the informal intersessional meeting on the draft United Nations declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples. 88. On the basis of information received at its second session, the Forum expresses its deep concern about the reported atrocities committed against the Pygmy people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Kuna people of Panama, and atrocities committed against indigenous peoples in other regions of the world. It urges the entire United Nations system as well as the appropriate bodies to take appropriate action. 89. The Forum welcomes and supports the decision of the Commission on Human Rights as contained in paragraph 11 of its resolution 2003/56 of 24 April 2003 to hold a seminar on the administration of justice.

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90. The Forum welcomes and supports Commission on Human Rights decision 2003/117 of 24 April 2003 to hold a seminar on treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements between indigenous peoples and States, as a follow-up to the United Nations treaty study final report.3 91. Following the results of the discussion under the special theme “Indigenous children and youth” and in the light of article 30 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Forum recommends that the Committee on the Rights of the Child request States parties to the Convention to include in their reports information pertaining to the situation of indigenous children under all relevant provisions of the Convention. 92. The Forum appreciates the information provided by the Council of Europe on the ways in which indigenous issues have been addressed in that organization. The Forum recommends that other appropriate regional intergovernmental organizations provide it with information on the ways in which indigenous issues have been addressed in their respective mechanisms for the protection of human rights and invites them to establish contacts with the Forum and to extend their experience with other regions. 93. The Forum reiterates the recommendations contained in paragraph 24 of its report on the first session,2 namely, it recommends that the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights organize activities with indigenous peoples in Africa and Asia with a view to: (a) Providing international and regional human rights training for indigenous peoples; (b) Encouraging dialogue between States, indigenous peoples and others on the concept of indigenous peoples in the context of the promotion and protection of cultural diversity; (c) Inviting inter-agency consultation with States and indigenous peoples at the national and subregional levels and to report to the Forum at its third session. 94. The Forum calls upon the European Commission to establish further collaboration with it on indigenous issues.

6. Culture

95. The Forum recommends that States consider constitutional and other legal reform and educational reform to recognize and respect cultural, religious and linguistic diversity and spiritual practices, within the framework of international human rights standards, and to eliminate all forms of discrimination and segregation that has deepened historic inequalities. 96. The Forum recommends that the World Intellectual Property Organization Committee continue to cooperate, where relevant, with other organizations and agencies within the United Nations system, such as the secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, the United Nations Environment Programme, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. ______3 E/CN.4/Sub.2/1999/20.

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97. The Forum welcomes and encourages the active involvement of representatives of indigenous peoples and local communities in the work of the WIPO Committee and in parallel consultations and workshops organized by WIPO, and calls for such involvement to be enhanced through, inter alia, the greater use in the work of WIPO of position papers, case studies and information materials reflecting community experiences and perspectives and the funding of the participation of representatives of indigenous peoples and local communities in sessions of the WIPO Committee. 98. The Forum recommends that Governments introduce indigenous languages in public administration in indigenous territories where feasible. 99. The Forum recommends that Governments and the United Nations system, through its country presences, support indigenous media and promote the engagement of indigenous youth in indigenous programmes. 100. The Forum recommends that the United Nations and Member States recognize the cultural rights of indigenous peoples which include the rights to organize oneself freely and to administer one’s own cultural, sports, social and religious institutions. For this purpose, the Forum encourages the United Nations and the relevant specialized agencies to consider establishing an international centre for multicultural and multiracial studies. 101. The Forum recommends that the World Tourism Organization prepare an initial paper on the issue of tourism and indigenous peoples, taking into account the positive and negative impacts, with a view to preparing guidelines on tourism and indigenous peoples. 102. The Forum welcomes the initiative of UNESCO to draft a convention on intangible heritage and requests the participation, consultation and dialogue with indigenous peoples and with the Forum. 103. The Forum recommends that the Economic and Social Council, States and the United Nations system promote the co-administration of archaeological sites which are administered by States in order to contribute to the care, preservation and conservation of those sites and to facilitate processes of development of indigenous peoples. 104. The Forum recommends that the national commissions of UNESCO work closely with indigenous experts and representatives with expertise in education, science, culture and communication to increase the participation of indigenous peoples in the activities of UNESCO. 105. The Forum recommends that UNESCO bring together indigenous experts and specialists to constitute an international network which integrates the domains of culture, education, science and communication in order to forge a partnership between UNESCO and indigenous peoples.

7. Education

106. The Forum recommends that the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, United Nations agencies and other relevant bodies provide more funds, through appropriate means, to help indigenous peoples for education, in particular, emphasizing the importance of bilingual and inter-cultural training for indigenous persons. Such funds should be used to facilitate the educational

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exchanges between indigenous peoples and others in order to make contributions to the cultural diversity of the world, as well as to preserve indigenous peoples’ cultural heritage. 107. The Forum recommends that concerned State Governments conduct workshops, training courses and other programmes for indigenous peoples, on a regular basis, to enhance their interest in the cultural diversity of the world and thus increase awareness about preserving distinct indigenous peoples’ culture. 108. The Forum recalls its mandate to “prepare and disseminate information on indigenous issues”,4 and invites indigenous peoples’ organizations to consider creative ways of educating and disseminating information on the Forum to indigenous peoples’ organizations and communities, including through art, workshops, radio programmes, posters, indigenous journalism and other culturally appropriate media. To that end, the Forum recommends that the programmes, funds and agencies of the United Nations system allocate appropriate resources for this purpose, assist in the production of such materials, include indigenous professionals in the production of such materials and report to the Forum at its third session on the extent to which they have been able to incorporate these actions into their programmes of work. The Forum also recommends that the United Nations Development Fund for Women allocate funding for capacity-building in connection with the Forum and for special outreach to indigenous women. The Forum furthermore recommends that the United Nations Children’s Fund allocate funding for capacity-building in connection with the Forum and for special outreach to indigenous children and youth. 109. The Forum recommends the creation and/or consolidation of academic institutions to train indigenous leaders of the world and urges public and private universities to develop curricula on indigenous peoples. The Forum furthermore exhorts the presidents of universities to promote the review of their teaching and research programmes with the objective of valuing and recognizing indigenous and inter-cultural education, and strengthening technical cooperation and the exchange of experience for the training of indigenous professionals. 110. The Forum recommends that the Economic and Social Council encourage States, specialized bodies and the United Nations system to consider creating international indigenous universities. 111. The Forum recommends that States reduce the rates of illiteracy, lack of schooling, truancy and dropouts and raise the rates of completed primary education through literacy campaigns and the design of indigenous, bilingual, inter-cultural educative and extramural models in the States where indigenous peoples live. 112. The Forum recommends that States rescue, foster and give publicity to the history and culture of indigenous peoples in the education systems of the world to strengthen their identity. 113. The Forum recommends that UNESCO hold a world forum on education and indigenous peoples with the participation of indigenous peoples that would contribute, inter alia, to enriching the indigenous education concepts and the pedagogic practices.

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114. The Forum recommends that UNESCO invite indigenous experts and specialists to participate in its education forums, congresses, conferences and meetings to ensure the recognition and contribution of indigenous scientific and technological knowledge. 115. The Forum recommends that the Special Rapporteur on the right to education pay special attention in her work to the right to education as contained in treaties, agreements, and other constructive arrangements between indigenous peoples, Nations and States.

8. Methods of work of the Forum with the United Nations system

116. The Forum notes that there is a need for capacity-building in national and local government as well indigenous communities in the areas within the Forum’s mandate, and recommends that various parts of the United Nations system, including the International Labour Organization and the secretariat of the Forum, cooperate to provide technical assistance in that regard at the request of Governments and indigenous communities. 117. The Forum expresses its satisfaction that the Inter-Agency Support Group has met since the first session of the Forum to organize its input to the second session, and expresses appreciation to the ILO and the World Bank for having convened the Group. The Forum requests the Group to extend its membership to other United Nations system entities so as to promote the largest possible participation of the system in the work programme of the Forum, and requests the secretariat of the Forum to provide substantive support to the rotating Chair of the Group. The Forum also expresses appreciation for the active participation of agency focal points in a constructive dialogue during its second session, and expresses the hope that focal points will continue to participate at its third session. 118. The Forum recognizes the efforts of the World Bank in the consultation process and the review of its policy on indigenous peoples. The members of the Forum request that the final draft policy be made available to them before its presentation to the Board of the World Bank. The members of the Forum express their great interest in reviewing the draft policy and making recommendations, as well as in meeting with the Board of Executive Directors of the World Bank. 119. The Forum recommends that the World Bank continue dialogue and direct consultation with indigenous peoples, and that a permanent dialogue be held among indigenous peoples, the World Bank and the Forum. 120. The Forum recommends strengthening the mechanisms for collaboration with United Nations agencies and Governments, and monitoring compliance with and the implementation of its recommendations made to United Nations agencies and Governments. 121. The Forum recommends that executive heads of United Nations agencies, funds and programmes that have not yet done so adopt policies on indigenous peoples and designate focal points for addressing indigenous issues relevant to each respective agency’s mandate in order to facilitate the mainstreaming of indigenous issues within the United Nations system.

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9. Future of the work of the Forum

Data collection

122. The Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues takes account of the diversity of national experience with surveys, censuses and other data and information- collection systems as applied to indigenous peoples, and in view of the urgent need for disaggregated data on indigenous peoples within all of the mandated areas for developing and streamlining the policies and guidelines of the work of United Nations agencies, funds and programmes, and also in view of the complexities of producing coherent data, reiterates the recommendation made at its first session to organize a workshop on the subject, and recommends that the Economic and Social Council adopt draft decision 1 contained in chapter I, section A, of the present report.

Voluntary Fund

123. The Forum expresses its satisfaction with the establishment by the General Assembly of the Voluntary Fund for the Permanent Forum and calls upon Governments, foundations and others to give generously to the Fund in order to promote the work of the Forum. 124. The Forum expresses its support for the work of the Board of Trustees and the Advisory Group of the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Populations and the United Nations Trust Fund for the International Decade of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, urges Governments, non-governmental organizations and other private or public entities and individuals to contribute to the funds and supports the continuation of the activities of the Board of Trustees and Advisory Group of both Funds, which are considered a vital support to indigenous communities worldwide.

Invitations to the Economic and Social Council and its subsidiary bodies and cooperation with them

125. The Forum urges the United Nations Secretariat to protect the privileges and immunities of members of the Forum and recommends that immediate action be taken to address any reported incidents. 126. Should members of the Forum wish to submit working papers to the Forum under the various areas of its mandate, they are hereby formally recommended to do so. 127. The Forum, taking into account the importance and potential of regional intergovernmental organizations in promoting indigenous issues in their respective regions, invites those organizations to contribute annually to its work.

Indigenous women

128. The Forum recommends that the Economic and Social Council, the relevant United Nations cooperating agencies and Governments of the region provide technical facilities and grant the necessary political and moral support for organizing: (a) The Fourth Continental Summit of Indigenous Women of the Americas, to be held in Lima in March 2004;

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(b) The Second Continental Conference of Indigenous Women of Africa, to be held in Nairobi, 2003; (c) The Second Conference of Asian Indigenous Women, to be held in 2004. 129. The Forum recommends that the special theme of its third session be “Indigenous women”.

Methods of work

130. Noting the challenge of securing the constructive participation of indigenous peoples’ organizations in its sessions and ongoing work and of developing an active partnership between civil society, Governments and the United Nations system, the Forum recommends that a workshop be convened to develop innovative working methods for future sessions of the Forum, including methods of disseminating information before the sessions. 131. The Forum decides to create a database of recommendations proposed by Forum members and observers during sessions of the Forum that are not reflected in reports of the sessions, for further consideration.

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Chapter II Introduction

1. The Forum held its first session at United Nations Headquarters from 13 to 24 May 2002 and submitted its report to the Council.5 2. By its decision 2002/285, the Council decided that the second session of the Forum would be held at United Nations Headquarters from 12 to 23 May 2003. 3. By its decision 2003/219, the Council took note of the provisional agenda for the second session of the Forum.

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Chapter III Theme of the session: “Indigenous children and youth”

1. The Forum considered item 3 of its agenda in the form of a high-level panel at its 2nd, 3rd, 18th and 19th meetings, on 12, 13 and 23 May 2003. 2. At the same meeting, the Chairman of the second session acted as Moderator, and presentations were made by Nina Pacari Vega, Foreign Minister of Ecuador; Jacob Doek, Chairperson, Committee on the Rights of the Child; Ida Nicolaisen, member of the Forum; Lisa Garrett, a representative of indigenous youth; Nils Kastberg of the United Nations Children’s Fund; Lee Swepston of the International Labour Organization; Jones Kyazze of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization; and Jackie Sims of the World Health Organization. 3. Also at the same meeting, the Forum engaged in an interactive dialogue, and interventions were made by the following members of the Forum: Otilia Lux de Coti, Njuma Ekundanayo, Wilton Littlechild, Marcos Matias Alonso, Qin Xiaomei and Mililani Trask. 4. At the same meeting, statements were made by the observer for Mexico and the following indigenous organizations: Centre for Organization, Research and Education and Assembly of First Nations. 5. At its 3rd meeting, on 13 May, the Forum continued its discussion on the item and statements were made by the observers for the following countries and organizations: Indigenous Youth from Assembly of First Nations; Elder’s Caucus; Women’s Caucus; World Council of Churches; Indigenous Peoples of Africa Coordinating Committee; Comisión Jurídica; Canada; Brazil; Finland; Japan; Coordinadora de las Organizaciones Indígenas de la Cuenca Amazónica; Consejo Indio de Sud America; Asociacion de Estudiantes Kumas Universitarios; Parakuiyo Community in Tanzania; Foundation for Aboriginal Research Action; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission; and Oficina Independiente de la Defensoria de los Pueblos Indigenas del Ecuador in America. 6. At the same meeting, a statement was made by Ida Nicolaisen, member of the Forum and a panellist.

Action taken by the Forum

7. At its 18th and 19th meetings, on 23 May, the Forum adopted its recommendations on item 3 (E/C.19/2003/L.1/Rev.1 and L.3) (see chap. I, sect. B) and took note of the Chairperson’s summary of the discussions of the panel on the item (E/C.19/2003/L.2 and L.2/Corr.1).

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Chapter IV Methods of work of the Forum with the United Nations system

1. The Forum considered item 5 of its agenda at its 3rd, 4th and 19th meetings, on 13 and 23 May 2003. 2. At its 3rd meeting, on 13 May, the Forum engaged in an interactive dialogue. The following United Nations agencies made introductory statements and responded to questions raised by members of the Forum: the ILO; World Bank; WHO and UNICEF. 3. At the same meeting, the following members of the Forum made interventions: Otilia Lux de Coti, Yuji Iwasawa, Antonio Jacanamijoy, Wilton Littlechild, Wayne Lord, Marcos Matias Alonso, Ida Nicolaisen, Qin Xiaomei, Zinaida Strogalschikova, Parshuram Tamang, Mililani Trask and Fortunato Turpo Choquehuanca. 4. At its 4th meeting, on 13 May, the Forum continued its discussion on item 5 and heard statements by the following members of the Forum: Njuma Ekundanayo, Ayitegan Kouevi, Wilton Littlechild, Wayne Lord, Marcos Matias Alonso, Ida Nicolaisen, Mililani Trask and Fortunato Turpo Choquehuanca. 5. At the same meeting, statements were made by the observers for the following countries and organizations: World Intellectual Property Organization; Teton Sioux Nation Treaty Council and Regional and Global Organization; Asian Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Network; Lumad Peoples Movement for Peace; Hill Watch Human Rights Forum; Pacific Caucus; Rapa Nui Parliament; Aotearoa Indigenous Rights Trust; The Koani Foundation; Na Koa Ikaika o Ka La Hui Hawai’i; Dwan Adat Papua; Foundation for Aboriginal and Island Research Action; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission; International Society for Threatened Peoples; Tebtebba Foundation; Asian Caucus; Indigenous Peoples’ Caucus on Sustainable Development; the Arctic Region; Mexico; Organización Indigena Chiquitana; New Zealand; Japan; IPACC and Tamaynut Africain Indigenous Peoples Coordinating Committee; the United Nations Institute for Training and Research; International Fund for Agricultural Development; the United Nations Human Settlements Programme; the Partnership for Indigenous Peoples Environment; Métis National Council; Indigenous Peoples and Nations Coalition; United Nations Association/United States of America and United Nations Association/Afghanistan; South Asia Indigenous Women’s Forum, Tonatierra; International Organization of Indigenous Resource Development; Confederacy of Treaty Six Chiefs; Foundation for Aboriginal and Islander Research Action; Australia; Indigenous Peoples Caucus for the Permanent Forum.

Action taken by the Forum

6. At its 19th meeting, on 23 May, the Forum adopted a number of recommendations proposed under item 5 (E/C.19/2003/L.6 and L.12) (see chap. I, sect. B, paras. ___), and took note of the Chairperson’s summaries of the discussion on the item (E/C.19/2003/L.2/Add.1 and L.2/Add.2/Corr.1).

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Chapter V Mandated areas

1. The Forum considered item 4 of its agenda at its 4th to 16th, and 18th and 19th meetings, from 13 to 23 May 2003.

A. Economic and social development

2. At the 4th meeting, on 13 May a statement on sub-item 4 (a) was made by the observer for the United Nations Development Programme. 3. At the 5th meeting, on 14 May, an interactive dialogue on the sub-item was conducted by the United Nations Forum on Forests, UN-Habitat, United Nations Population Fund, Inter-American Development Bank, United Nations Development Fund and the following members of the Forum: Mililani Trask, Ayitegan Kouevi, Marcos Matias Alonso, Ida Nicolaisen, Parshuram Tamang, Otilia Lux de Coti, Wayne Lord, Zinaida Strogalschikova, Njuma Ekundanayo and Qin Xiaomei. 4. At the same meeting, a statement was made by the Director of the Division for Social Policy and Development, Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat. 5. Also at the same meeting, statements were made by the observers for the following countries and organizations: Saami Council; Asian Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Network; Tebtebba Foundation; Bethechilokono; Mexico; Philippines; Saulteau First Nations; Coordinadora de las Organizaciones Indígenas de la Cuenca Amazónica; Centro de Estudia Aymaras of Bolivia; Partnership for Indigenous Peoples Environment/International Oil Working Group; Parlamento del Pueblo Qullana Aymara; Consejo Internacional de Trafados Indios; Fundación para la promoción de Conocimiento Indigena. 6. At the 6th meeting, on 14 May, the Forum continued its discussion on the sub- item and statements were made by the observers for the following countries and organizations: Brazil; Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People; Tonatierra; Canada; World Bank; American Indian Community Health; Comisión Jurídica; the Indigenous Peoples Caucus on Sustainable Development; Inuit Circumpolar Conference; Parbatya Chattagram Jana Samhati Samiti; Foundation for Aboriginal and Islander Research Action; Indigenous Peoples and Nations Coalition; Pacific Caucus; Asian Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Network; Lumad Peoples Movement for Peace; Hill Watch Human Rights Forum; Consejo de Pueblos y Organizaciones Indígenas del Ecuador; Council of Spiritual Elders of Mother Earth (Turtle Islands); Asia Indigenous Peoples’ Caucus; Association of Limbu Shamans of Nepal; Confederaciones Nacionalidades Indígenas del Ecuador; and Seventh Generation. 7. At the same meeting, statements were made by the following members of the Forum: Mililani Trask; Wilton Littlechild; Fortunato Turpo Choquehuanca; and Parshuram Tamang. 8. At the 7th meeting, on 15 May, the Forum continued its discussion of the sub- item and heard statements by the observers for the following countries and organizations: Russian Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North; Yachay Wasi (Runa Simi) Quechua; Red Continental de Medios de Comunicacion

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Indígenas; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission; Instituto Indígena Brasileiro; Defensoria de los Pueblos Indígenas del Ecuador en America; Tebtebba Foundation; African Indigenous and Minority Peoples Organization; South Asia Indigenous Women Forum and Nepal Tamong Women Ghedurg; Ogiek Rural Integral Program; the Ibazoi Tribe in Cordeillera of the Philippines; Universidad de las Regiones Autonomas de la Costa Caribe Nicaraguense; Hmong International Human Rights Watch; Armando Ualbuena for La Organizacion Nacional Indigena de Colombia; Centro de Promocion Para el Desarrollo Comunal Init; Coordinadora Indígena Campesina Agroforestales del Peru; Peace Campaign Group; Indigenous Peoples African Coordinating Committee; Grandmothers of Mother Earth; and World Summit on Information Society. 9. At the same meeting, a statement was made by the Director of the Division for Sustainable Development of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs. 10. Also at the same meeting, the following members of the Forum made interventions: Antonio Jacanamijoy, Otilia Lux de Coti, Marcos Matias Alonso, Ayitegan Kouevi, Ida Nicolaisen, Zinaida Strogalschikova, Mililani Trask, Njuma Ekundanayo and Wilton Littlechild.

B. Environment

11. At the 8th meeting, on 15 May, Parshuram Tamang, member of the Forum, made a statement on sub-item 4 (b). 12. At the same meeting, statements were made on the sub-item by the observers for the following countries and organizations: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO); Na Koa Ikaika o Ka La Hui Hawai’i; Indigenous Peoples Council on Biocolonialism; Coordinadora de las Organizaciones Indígenas de la Cuenca Amazónica; Comunidad Tayja Saruta Sarayacu; Asia Caucus; Buffalo River Dene Nation; the Seventh Generation Fund; Indian Confederation of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples; United Native Nations Truth Network and Voice Confederation; Onyota ‘A:Ka Haudenosaunee Oneida Indian Territory and Youth; Asia-Pacific Indigenous Youth Network; American Indian Community Health; Comisión Jurídica; Asociación de la Juventud Indígena; Indigenous Women of the Americas; Agogo Traditional Area of the Ashanti in Ghana; Partnership for Indigenous People’s Environment; International Oil Working Group; Confederaciones Nacionalidades Indígenas del Ecuador; Defensoria de los Pueblos Indígenas del Ecuador en America; National Aboriginal Forestry Association; Centre for Organization, Research and Education; International Indigenous People’s Think Tank; United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP); Mexico; Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People; Bangladesh Indigenous People’s Forum; Parbatya Chaftagram Jana Samhati Samiti; Tongya; Consejo Internacional de Tratados Indios; and Saami Council. 13. At the 9th meeting, on 16 May, the Forum continued its discussions on the sub- item and statements were made by the observers for the following countries and organizations: Indonesia; Fundación para la Promocion de Canoc Indígena; Saami Council; Cordillera Peoples’ Alliance; Peace Campaign Group; International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD); Sage Council; Tonantzin Land Institute; Tonantierra; Seventh Generation Fund; Frente Indigena Oaxaqueño; Binacional; Indigenous Peoples’ Caucus for Sustainable Development; Tebtebba Foundation;

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Conferación Indigena Tayrona; Secretariat for the Convention on Biological Diversity; World Bank; Associacao Awete Kaiwa; Halau Ku Mana (YOUTH); Pacific Caucus; Yachay Wasi; Kmakakuokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies, University of Hawaii; Asociación de Criadores de Camelidos Andinos del Perú; Asociación de Mujeres Indiginas Alpaqueras de la Region; Instituto Indígena de Propriedad Intelectual; Brazil; Indigenous Environmental Network; and Alianza Internacional de Pueblos Indígenas y Tribales de los Bosques Tropicales. 14. At the same meeting, the Chairman also made a statement. 15. At the 10th meeting, on 16 May, the Forum continued its discussions of the sub-item and heard statements by the observers of the following countries and organizations: Indigenous Information Network; African Indigenous Women’s Organization; Inuit Circumpolar Conference; Greenland/Denmark; OPIAC; AMAAI; Habitatpro; Ethnic Minority and Indigenous Rights Organisation of Africa; Faira Aboriginal Corporation; Warã Instituto Indigena; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission; Indigenous Peoples African Coordinating Committee; Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission; Universidad de las Regiones Autonomas de la Costa Caribe Nicaraguense; Organización Nacional Indigena de Colombia; Asamblea Nacional Indigena Plural por la Autonomia; UNDP; Ashaninka-AIDESEP; Ka Lāhui Hawaii; Russian Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North; the Haudenosaunee Six Nations of Iroquois Confederacy of Turtle Island (North America); Ibaloi Tribe, Philippines; Assembly of First Nations; and Ogiek Rural Integral Program. 16. At the same meeting, statements were also made by the following members of the Forum: Parshuram Tamang, Wilton Littlechild, Ayitegan Kouevi, Qin Xiaomei, Ida Nicolaisen, Otilia Lux de Coti, Fortunato Turpo Choquehuanca, Njuma Ekundanayo, and Antonio Jacanamijoy.

C. Health

17. At the 11th meeting, on 19 May, the Forum began its consideration of sub-item 4 (c) and Mililani Trask, member of the Forum, made a presentation. 18. At the same meeting, statements were made by the observers of the following countries and organizations: Consultoría de los Pueblos Indígenos en el Norte de Mexico; World Blind Union; Alaska Federation of Natives; Society for Threatened Peoples; American Indian Law Alliance; Centre for Organization, Research and Education, Canada; Boarding School Caucus; Confederacion de Nacionalidades Indigenas del Ecuador, Mexico; Centro de Estudios Ayuranos, Guyana; FAIRA Aboriginal Corporation; Aotearoa Indigenous Rights Trust; Indigenous Peoples Coordinating Committee of Africa; National Council of Indigenous Women of Ecuador; Indigenous Peoples Caucus on Sustainable Development; Arctic Indigenous Region; Organizacion Nacional Indigeno de Colombia; Altai Regional Public Organization of the Kumandin Peoples; Kamakaūokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies, University of Hawaii; Hālau kū Māna and Siksika Nation. 19. At its 12th meeting, on 19 May, the Forum continued its discussion of the sub- item and statements were made by the observers for the following countries and organizations: Chickaloon Village (Nay’dini’aa’Na); Kenya Female Advisory Organization; Pacific Caucus; Statistics Division of the Department of Economic

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and Social Affairs; Na Koa Ikaika o Ka La Hui Hawai’i; Indigenous Peoples Council on Biocolonialism; Indigenous Youth Caucus; International Indian Treaty Council; Indigenous Environmental Network; Asemblea Nacional Indigena Plural por la Autonomia; American Indian Law Alliance; Na Koa Ikaiko o Ka La Hui Hawai’i; Native Children’s Survival, Teton Lakota Nation Treaty Council; Hawai’i Institute for Human Rights; FENOCIN-Ecuador; Indigenous Peoples’ and Nations Coalition — Alaska; Pit River Indian Nation; Alaska Community Action on Toxics; Indigenous World Association; Assembly of First Nations; Instituto Tonanzin; Frente Indígena Oaxaqueno; Mujeres Mayas de Jovel Maya’ik de Chiapas Mexico; First Peoples Worldwide; Fundación para la Promoción de Conocimiento Indigena; American Indian Treaty Council Information Center; Asociacion Nabguana; Coordinadora Nacional de Pequenos y Medianos Productores de Guatemala; Association of Limba Shaman; Kulung Rai Language and Cultural Development Community; TRIPURA; Bangladesh Adivashi Forum; Parbatya Chattagram Jana Samhati Samiti; Hill Tracts NGO Forum; Taungya; Trinamul; Committee on Indigenous Health; Asia Caucus (Cordillera Peoples’ Alliance); Center for Organization, Research and Education; American Indian Community House; Pine Ridge Reservation; Asian Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Network; Lumad Peoples Movement for Peace; Hill Watch Human Rights Forum; Assembly of First Nations; Organization of Loacan Indigenous Peoples; Consejo de Anciano del Continiente de Latino America; World Council of Churches; Defensoria de los Pueblos Indígenos del Ecuador en America; Fundacíon para la Promocion de Conoc Indígenos; Brazil; Aboriginal and Islander Commission; Tin Hinan; Indigenous Peoples Survival Foundation; American Psychological Association; Yachak de Comunidad Ilumarí; Russian Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North; International Native Tradition Interchange; and Pan American Health Organization. 20. At the 13th meeting, on 20 May, the Forum continued its discussions on the sub-item of health and statements were made by the observers for the following organizations: T’suu Tina Nation; Retrieve Foundation; Fundacion de Gente Indigena Yanomami; Health Unlimited; Associacao Awaete Kaiwa; Jharkhandis Organisation for Human Rights; Enlace Continental de Mujeres Indigenas; Casa Nativa Tampa Allgo Peru; the Navajo Nation; and World Bank. 21. At the same meeting, statements were made by the following members of the Forum: Mililani Trask, Wilton Littlechild, Otilia Lux de Coti, Njuma Ekundanayo, Qin Xiaomei, Ida Nicolaisen, Parshuram Tamang and Antonio Jacanamijoy.

D. Human rights

22. At its 14th meeting, on 20 May, the Forum considered sub-item 4 (d) and an interactive dialogue was conducted between the Working Group on Indigenous Populations and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, as well as Mrs. Daes, the permanent member of the Working Group on Indigenous Populations, and the following members of the Forum: Marcos Matias Alonso, Fortunato Turpo Choquehuanca, Ayitegau Kouevi, Wilton Littlechild, Otilia Lux de Coti, Ida Nicolaisen, Qin Xiaomei, Zinaida Strogalschikova, and Mililani Trask. 23. Statements were made by the observers of the following countries and organizations: Finland; Mexico; Nigeria; Norway; Indigenous People’s Participants

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in the World Bank October 2002 Round Table; Asia Pacific Indigenous Youth Network; Pacific Caucus; Rapa Nui Hawaii; Na Koa Ikaika o Ka Lahui Hawaii; the Koani Foundation; Dewan Adat Papua; Foundation for Aboriginal and Island Research Action; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission; Pacific Concerns Resource Center; Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific; Waikiki Hawaiian Civic Club; International Indian Treaty Council; Indigenous Environmental Network; Seventh Generation Fund; Indigenous Peoples and Nations Coalition; Wa Koa Ikaika oka Lahui Hawaii; Asian Indigenous Second Tribal Peoples Network; Hill Watch Human Rights Forum; Lumad Peoples Movement for Peace; FAIRA Aboriginal; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commission; Indigenous Peoples African Coordinating Committee; Tamaynut; Bangladesh Indigenous Peoples Forum; National Indigenous Peoples Council; Khasi Welfare Association; Tribal Welfare Association; Taungya; PCJSS; Peace Campaign Group; Saami Council; Inuit Circumpolar Conference; Enlace Continental de Mujeres Indígenas and Asamblea Nacional Indígena Plural por la Autonomía; Coordinadora Nacional de Mujeres Indígenas de México; Coordinadora Nacional de Mujeres Indígenas de Panamá; Taller Permanente Perú; Asociación Nacional de Mujeres de la Costa Atlántica y Servicios para el Desarrollo; National Indigenous Institute; Indigenous peoples of Saint Lucia; The Aldet Centre-Saint Lucia; International Alliance against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance; Fundación para la Promoción Indígenas Inti; Conocimientos Indígenas; Tonatzin; Asociación Napguana; Asia Caucus; Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact Foundation; Hill Tract NGO Forum; PCJSS (Bangladesh); Nepal Federation of Nationalities; Binora Institute for Research and Action; Naga Peoples Movement for Human Rights; Borok Indigenous Peoples Development Centre; Bawm Indigenous Peoples Organisation; Chin Human Rights Organisation; Impect; Conto; Centre for Development of Mountainous Areas; Indigenous Women’s Network of Ratauakiri, C’dia; Partners of Community Organisations (Pazos Trust); Indigenous Peoples Network of Malaysia; ATIPP; Codillera Peoples Alliances; Tebtebba Foundation; International Alliance of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples of the Tropical Forest; Karen Youth Organisation; Republic of Bambuti Community of the Democratic Republic of the Congo; and Union pour l’Emancipation de la Femme Autochtone de la Republique démocratique du Congo. 24. At its 15th meeting, on 21 May, statements on the sub-item were also made by the following members of the Forum: Yuji Iwasawa, Ayitegau Kouevi and Otilia Lux de Coti. 25. At the same meeting, the observer for Indonesia made a statement in reply.

E. Culture

26. At its 15th meeting, on 21 May, the Forum considered sub-item 4 (e) and an interactive dialogue was conducted between the observer for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the following members of the Forum: Fortunato Turpo Choquhuanca, Njuma Ekudanayo, Ayitegau Kouevi, Willie Littlechild, Otilia Lux de Coti, Ida Nicolaisen, Qin Xiaomei and Parshuram Tamang.

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27. At the same meeting, statements were made by the observers for the following countries and organizations: Canada; Guatemala; Mexico; New Zealand; Griqua National Conference of South Africa; National Khoi-San Conference; Consejo Indio de Sudamerica; Aymara Parliament; Aymara Alliance; Indigenous Peoples of Africa Coordinating Committee; Tamaymut; Goduka: Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe; Central Michigan University; Consejo Internacional de Tratados Indios; Fundación para la Promoción de Conocimientos Indígenas; Asociación Nabguana; Tonantzin Land Institute; Maasai Women for Education and Economic Development; Indigenous People’s Programme; World Council of Churches; Consultoría de los Pueblos Indígenas en el Norte de México; Agencia Internacional de Prensa India; Asamblea Nacional Indígena Plural por la Autonomía y Servicios para el Desarrollo; Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center; Movimiento de Unificación y Lucha Triqui; Asia Caucus; Committee on Indigenous Health; Alaska Federation of Natives; Indigenous Youth Caucus; Indigenous Peoples of the Caribbean Antilles; Pacific Caucus; Boarding School Caucus; Sovereign Dineh Nation (Navajo); Confederaciones de Nacionalidades Indígenas del Ecuador; European Parliament; World Festival of Sports and Culture; Rapa Nui Parliament; and Parlamento Indígena de America. At the same meeting, the Chairman made a statement.

F. Education

28. At its 16th meeting, on 21 May, the Forum considered sub-item 4 (f) and an interactive dialogue was conducted between the observer for UNESCO and the following members of the Forum: Fortunato Turpo Choquehuanca, Wilton Littlechild, Otilia Lux de Coti and Zinaida Strogalschikova. 29. Statements were made by the observers of the following countries and organizations: Bangladesh; Brazil; Mexico; Myanmar; Sweden; Pacific Caucus: Rapa Nui Parliament; Aotearoa Indigenous RightsTrust; Ka Lahui Hawaii; Na Koa Ikaika o Ka Lahui Hawai’i; Koani Foundation; Dewan Adat Papua; Foundation for Aboriginal and Island Research Action; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission; Pacific Concerns Resource Center; Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific; Waikiki Hawaiian Civic Club; Navajo Nation; Inuit Youth International; Arctic Region Youth; the former Indigenous Fellows of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights; Bangladesh, Adivasi Forum; Belize (on behalf of CARICOM); PCJSS; HTNF; Taungya; Trinamul; Peace Campaign Group; Asia-Pacific Indigenous Youth Network; Center for Organization, Research and Education; Aymara Alliance; First Peoples’ Worldwide; Canadian Teacher’s Federation; Education International, Belgium; The Ainu Association of Hokkaido; AMAAI; Organización de los Pueblos Indígenas de la Amazonia Colombiana; St. John’s Mission; BIJNI; Indian Confederation of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples, Northeast Zone; Bodoland Children’s Home (India); Asia Indigenous Caucus: South Asia Indigenous Women Forum, Asia Indigenous Peoples’ Pact, Nepal Tamang Ghedung; Association of Limbus; Tebtebba Foundation; Consejo Internacional de Tratados Indios; Fundación para la Promoción de Conocimientos Indígenas; Asociación Nabguana; Asociación de Estudiantes Kunas Universitarios; Tonantzin Land Institute; Boarding School Caucus; Global Teaching and Learning Project; Department of Public Information, United Nations; The Holy See; Consejo Nacional Indio de Venezuela; Proyecto de Desarrollo Santiago, Prodessa; Plataforma Maya; Agencia Internacional de Prensa India; Región Centro Occidente

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Michoacán/Jalisco/Nayarit; Ka Lahui Hawai’i (Halau Ku Mana); Nepal; Indigenous peoples of Saint Lucia; and Regional Action Group for the Environment. 30. The Chairman made a statement on his meeting with the President of the Security Council. * * * Action taken by the Forum

31. At its 18th and 19th meetings, on 23 May, the Forum, in adopting the draft recommendations submitted under agenda item 4 (E/C.19/2003/L.13-18 and L.19/Add.1), identified a number of proposals, objectives, recommendations and areas of possible future action, and, through the Economic and Social Council, requested States, the United Nations system and intergovernmental organizations, indigenous peoples, the private sector and NGOs to assist in their implementation (see chap. I.B). The Forum also took note of the Chairperson’s summary of the discussion on the item (E/C.19/2003/L.2 and Add.2 to 7 and L.2/Add.2/Corr.1 and L.2/Add.4/Corr.1).

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Chapter VI Future work of the Forum

1. At its 17th meeting, on 22 May, the Forum considered agenda item 6. Statements were made by the observers of the following countries and organizations: Colombia; Denmark; Dominica; Mexico; New Zealand; Venezuela; Sovereign Dineh Nation; Haudenosaunee Ska-Roh-Reh; Assembly of First Nations; Saulteau First Nation; Nippissing First Nation; Majority Caucus; Indigenous Nations Network; Tetunwa Oyate; Oglala Lakota Nation; Canadian Teacher’s Federation; Education International; Indigenous Peoples Centre for Documentation, Research and Information; The Society for Threatened Peoples; Russian Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North; Asociación Napguana and Tebtebba; Center for Research and Education; Dewan Adat Papua; Jebra Muchahary; Wara Iinstituto Indígena Brasileiro; Buffalo River Dene; Pacific Caucus; Aotearoa Indigenous Rights Trust; Cono Sur; Comiti Intratribal; Instituto Indígena Brasileiro de Propriedade Intelectual; Faira Aboriginal Corporation; Indigenous People’s Caucus on Sustainable Development; Tebtebba; Raipon; Indigenous Environment Network; International Indian Treaty Council; Ixacavaa; Africa Indigenous Women’s Organization; Asociación de la Juventud Indigena Argentina; Movimiento de la Juventud Indígena de Panamá; Asociación de Estudiantes Universitarios Kunas; The Navajo Nation; International Indian Treaty Council; Regional Action Group for the Environment; Indigenous Nations Network; United Native Nations Truth Network; and Voice Confederation.

Action taken by the Forum

2. At its 19th meeting, on 23 May, the Forum, in adopting the draft recommendations submitted under agenda item 6 (E/C.19/2003/L.6 and L.12), identified a number of proposals, objectives, recommendations and areas of possible future action, and, through the Economic and Social Council, requested States, the United Nations system and intergovernmental organizations, indigenous peoples, the private sector and NGOs to assist in their implementation (see chap. I, sect. B).

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Chapter VII Provisional agenda for the third session of the Forum

1. The Forum considered agenda item 7 at its 17th meeting, on 22 May, and statements were made by the observers of the following organizations: Indigenous Women’s Caucus; Aymara Alliance; and Consejo Indio de Sudamérica.

Action taken by the Forum

2. At its 19th meeting, on 23 May, the Forum adopted the provisional agenda for its third session (E/C.19/2003/L.11) and recommended it for approval by the Economic and Social Council (see chap. I.A, draft decision VI).

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Chapter VIII Adoption of the report of the Forum on its second session

1. At the 18th and 19th meetings, on 23 May, the Rapporteur introduced the draft report of the Forum on its second session (E/C.19/2003/L.19 and Add.1). 2. At the same meeting, the Director of the Division for Social Policy and Development, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, made a statement on the programme budget implications of the draft recommendations submitted by the Forum. 3. Also at the same meeting, the Forum took note of the Chairperson’s summary of the discussions of the Forum at its second session (E/C.19/2003/L.2/Add.1 to 7). 4. At the same meeting, the Forum adopted its report on its second session. 5. At the same meeting, statements were made by the President of the Economic and Social Council, a Maasai Elder and the Chairperson of the Forum. The second session was then declared closed.

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Chapter IX Organization of the session

A. Opening and duration of the session

1. The Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues held its second session at United Nations Headquarters from 12 to 23 May 2003. It held 19 formal meetings (1st to 19th) and a number of informal meetings. 2. At the 1st meeting, on 12 May, the session was opened by the Assistant Secretary-General and Special Adviser on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women. During the inauguration ceremony, the floor was given to Tadodaho Chief and Elder, and a representative of indigenous youth, for a traditional indigenous welcome. 3. At the same meeting, a statement was made by Ole Henrik Magga, Chairperson of the Forum. 4. Also at the same meeting, the Assistant Secretary-General made a statement on behalf of the Secretary-General. 5. At the same meeting, the Director of the New York Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights made a statement on behalf of the High Commissioner. 6. At the same meeting, statements were also made by the Director of the Division for Social Policy and Development, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people, and the Chairperson of the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Populations.

B. Attendance

7. Members of the Forum and representatives of Governments, United Nations bodies and intergovernmental organizations, as well as of non-governmental organizations and indigenous organizations, attended the session. The list of participants is contained in annex I.

C. Election of officers

8. At its 1st meeting, on 13 May, the Forum re-elected the following members of the Bureau by acclamation: Chairperson: Ole Henrik Magga Vice-Chairpersons: Njuma Ekundanayo Antonio Jacanamijoy Parshuram Tamang Mililani Trask Rapporteur: Wilton Littlechild

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D. Agenda

9. At its 1st meeting, on 12 May, the Forum adopted the provisional agenda contained in document E/C.19/2003/1, which read: 1. Election of officers. 2. Adoption of the agenda and organization of work. 3. Theme of the session: “Indigenous children and youth”. 4. Mandated areas: (a) Economic and social development; (b) Environment; (c) Health; (d) Human rights; (e) Culture; (f) Education. 5. Methods of work of the Forum with the United Nations system. 6. Future work of the Forum. 7. Provisional agenda for the third session of the Forum. 8. Adoption of the report of the Forum on its second session.

E. Documentation

10. The documents before the Forum at its second session are listed in annex II to the present report.

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Annex I

Attendance

Members

Marcos Matias Alonso (Mexico), Yuri Boitchenko (Russian Federation), Fortunato Turpo Choquehuanca (Peru), Otilia Lux de Coti (Guatemala), Njuma Ekundanayo (Democratic Republic of the Congo), Yuji Iwasawa (Japan), Ayitegan Kouevi (Togo), Willie Littlechild (Canada), Wayne Lord (Canada), Ole Henrik Magga (Norway), Ida Nicolaisen (Denmark), Xiaomei Qin (China), Zinaida Strogalschikova (Russian Federation), Parshuram Tamang (Nepal), Antonio Segundo Jacanamijoy Tisoy (Colombia), Mililani Trask (United States of America)

States Members of the United Nations represented by observers

Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belize, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Costa Rica, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Denmark, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Fiji, Finland, Guatemala, Guyana, Iceland, India, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Myanmar, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Singapore, South Africa, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Syrian Arab Republic, Thailand, Tonga, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United Republic of Tanzania, United States of America, Uruguay, Viet Nam

Non-member States represented by observers

Holy See

United Nations bodies and specialized agencies and other intergovernmental organizations

African Union, Committee on the Rights of the Child, Convention on Biological Diversity, Council of Europe European Commission, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Inter-American Development Bank, International Fund for Agricultural Development, International Labour Organization, International Organization for Migration, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations Children’s Fund, United Nations Development Fund for Women, United Nations Development Programme, United Nations Environment Programme, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, United Nations Human Settlements Programme, United Nations Institute for Training and Research, United Nations Population Fund, United Nations Secretariat, World Bank, World Health Organization, World Intellectual Property Organization

Indigenous peoples organizations

(Organizations in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council appear in bold type)

Abya Yala Nexus, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission, Action Aides aux Familles Demunies (AAFD), African Center Foundation, African Indigenous

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and Trade, Indigenous Peoples and Nations Coalition, Indigenous Peoples Council on Biocolonialism, Indigenous Peoples of Africa Coordination Committee (IPACC), Indigenous Peoples Survival Foundation, Indigenous Villages Development Service Association, Indigenous Women Initiative, Indigenous World Association, Institute for International Law and Justice, NYU School of Law, Instituto Indigena Brasileiro de Propriedade Intelectual (Brasil), Instituto Socio Ambiental ISA, International Indian Law Resource Center, International Indian Treaty Council, International Institute for the Study and Preservation of Aboriginal Peoples and their Cultures, International Organization of Indigenous Resource, International Service for Human Rights, International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs, INUIT Circumpolar Conference, Jumma Peoples Network, Ka Lahui Hawai’I, Kalpulli tlalteca, Kenya Female Advisory Organization, Kobe Oser (West Pappua Melanesia), Kulung Rai Language and Cultural Development Community, La Red Xicana Indigena, Lembus Indigenous People, Lungie Cmu Saginas Chippewa, Mboscuda, Mejlis of Crimean Tatar People, Mena Muria Foundation, Metis National Council, Mohawk Nation at Kahnawake, Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People, Movimiento Accion y Resistencia “M.A.R.”, Movimiento Indigena de Guyana, Movimiento Indigena de tungurahua, MIT, Na Koa Ikaika o Ka Lahui Hawaii, Naserian Womens Group, National Aboriginal Forestry Association, National Congress of American Indians, Native American Rights Fund, Navajo Nation Council, Netherlands Center for Indigenous Peoples (NCIV), NGO Committee on the International Decade, Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated, Office of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commissioner, Ogiek rural integral projects (ORlP), Onondaga Nation, OPIAC, Organisacion de los Pueblos Indigenas de la Amazonia Colombiana (OPIAC) Inc., Organizacion Indigena Chiquitana (OICH), OVAD-AP, Parbattya Chattagram Jana Samhati Samiti (PCJSS), Parlamento Indigena de America, Presidencia Grupo Venezuela, Partnership for Indigenous Peoples Environment, Pesquisas y Proyectos Necesarios A. C., Piffik Nutaag, Pimiaikanuk, Plains Indians Cultural Survival School Society, Presencia Taina, TV, Proyecto de Desarrollo Santiago PRODESSA, Pueblos Indios Consejo Continental Americano, Punachizak, Rapa Nui Parliament, Red Continental de Medios de Comunicacion Indigenas, Red Earth Studio consulting/Productions, Retrieve Foundation, Russian Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North (RAIPON), Saami Council, SAGE Council (Sacred Alliance for Grassroots Equality), Saulteau First Nation, Shimin Gaikou Centre, Simba Maasai Outreach Organization (SIMOO), Sisa Pakari, South Asia Indigenous Women Forum and Nepal Tamang Ghedung, Sovereign Dineh Nation, Navajo Tribe, Spiritual Elder’s of Mother Earth, Taller de Difusion Andina “Mashicuna”, Taungya, Tayja Saruta Sarayacu, Tazzla Institute for Cultural Diversity, Tebtebba Foundation — Indigenous Peoples’ International Centre for Policy Research and Education, Teton Sioux Nation Treaty Council, The Aldet Centre Saint Lucia, The American Indian Community House, The Australian National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC), The Koani Foundation, The Navajo Nation, The Pachamama Alliance, The Seventh Generation Fund, Tin Hinan, Tonantzin Land Institute, TONATIERRA, Tribal Link Foundation, Umulliko, Union pour l’Emancipation de la Femme Autochtone (UEFA), Unissons-Nous Pour La Promotion Des Batwa (UNIPROBA), United Confederation of Taino People, Vivat International, Wampum International, Wara Instituto Indigena Brasileiro, Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California, West Papua Indigenous Student and Youth (AWPISY), White Hawk Indian Council, World Festival of Traditional Games & Sports, Yachay Wasi (House of Learning in the Quechua Language of Peru),

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Yayasan Konsultasi Pendidikan Masyarakat Papua, Zambuulin For Moral Rebirth and Cultural Development

Non-governmental organizations in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council

Amnesty International, Anglican Consultative Council, Church World Service, Center for International Environmental Law, Commission of the Churches on International Affairs of the World Council of Churches, Congregation of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd, Congregations of St. Joseph, Dominican Leadership Conference, Education International, Elizabeth Seton Foundation, Franciscans International, Friends World Committee for Consultation, International Federation for the Protection of the Rights of Ethnic, Religious, International Federation of University Women, Linguistic & Other Minorities International, Service for Human Rights, Global Education Associates, Maryknoll Sisters of St. Dominic Inc., Pan African Movement, Partnership Africa Canada, Rainforest Foundation, School Sisters of Notre Dame, Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, Society for Threatened Peoples, Summer Institute of Linguistics, United Methodist Church — General Board of Church and Society, United Nations Association of the USA, World Blind Union

Non-governmental organizations not in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council

Arctic Fire Productions, American Anthropological Association, American Friends Service Committee, American-Scandinavian Foundation, Action Against Hunger, Association pour la Promotion Durable de la Femme Defavorisées, DoCip Indigenous People’s Centre for Documentation, Research and Information, Fini Fini, Habitat Pro Association, Health Unlimited, Land is Life, Minority Rights Group International, Montagnard Human Rights Organization, Office of Treaty Settlements, Pathways to Peace, Peace Campaign Group, Regional Action Group from the Environment Inc., Spirit Net of Estonia, St. John FS Mission, Bijni, Sunray Meditation Society

Academic organizations

American Indian Community House Human Rights Program/University of Chicago, Borough of Manhattan Community College/City University of New York, City University of New York, Columbia University, Dalhousie University, Indian Law Program, University of New Mexico School of Law, Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition, McMaster, Institute of Human Rights, Law Faculty University of Auckland, New School University, Muhlenberg College, Rutgers University, UNESCO Centre of Catalonia, University of Alaska Fairbanks, University of California, University of Concordia, University of Deusto, University of Hawai’I-Manoa, University of Oxford, University of Tulsa College of Law, Victoria University of Wellington Law School

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Annex II

Documentation

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E/C.19/2003/1 Provisional agenda E/C.19/2003/2 Proposed organization of work E/C.19/2003/3 Note by the secretariat of the Forum on outcomes achieved in response to the first session of the Forum E/C.19/2003/4 Information received from the United Nations system: joint paper on data collection and disaggregation by ethnicity E/C.19/2003/5 Information received from the United Nations system: United Nations Institute for Training and Research E/C.19/2003/6 Information received from the United Nations system: International Labour Organization E/C.19/2003/7 Information received from the United Nations system: World Health Organization E/C.19/2003/8 Information received from the United Nations system: United Nations Human Settlements Programme E/C.19/2003/9 Information received from Governments: Finland E/C.19/2003/10 Information received from Governments: Mexico

E/C.19/2003/11 Note by the secretariat of the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Populations on the allocation of travel agents E/C.19/2003/12 Information received from Governments: Ecuador E/C.19/2003/13 Information received from the United Nations system: United Nations Children’s Fund E/C.19/2003/14 Information received from the United Nations system: World Intellectual Property Organization E/C.19/2003/15 Note by the Secretariat on the high-level panel and dialogue on indigenous children and youth E/C.19/2003/16 Information received from Governments: Russian Federation E/C.19/2003/17 Information received from Governments: Sweden E/C.19/2003/18 Information received from the United Nations system: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations E/C.19/2003/19 Information received from the United Nations system: United Nations Development Programme

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E/C.19/2003/20 Information received from Governments: Australia E/C.19/2003/21 Information received from the United Nations system: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization E/C.19/2003/L.5 and Draft decisions L.7-11 E/C.19/2003/L.1/ Draft recommendations Rev.1, L.3-4, L.6, L.12, L.13 and 13/Rev.1, L.14-15 and L.17-18 E/C.19/2003/L.2 and Chairperson’s summaries Add.1-7 E/C.19/2003/L.19 and Draft report Add.1 E/C.19/2003/NGO/1 Statements submitted by non-governmental organizations in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council: International Indian Treaty Council E/C.19/2003/NGO/2 Statements submitted by non-governmental organizations in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council: Tebtebba Foundation E/C.19/2003/CRP.1 Information received from the Division for the Advancement of Women

E/C.19/2003/CRP.2 Declaration on the sacred birthright of indigenous children and youth E/C.19/2003/CRP.3 Information received from the United Nations system: UNESCO activities regarding indigenous issues E/C.19/2003/CRP.4 Indigenous issues and the Inter-American Development Bank

E/C.19/2003/CRP.5 Information received from the United Nations system: Information note by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights E/C.19/2003/CRP.6 Statement submitted by American Indian Law Alliance: Plan of action to assure the sacred birthright of indigenous children and youth E/C.19/2003/CRP.7 (Spanish only) Información recibida de los Gobiernos: Venezuela E/C.19/2003/CRP.8 (Spanish only) Asuntos indígenas y el Banco Interamericano de desarrollo E/C.19/2003/CRP.9 Information received from Governments: Norway

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